Parents--Be Aware! No Child Left Behind Act gives your kid's name to Army

You can opt out if you request it, but no one knows this!

This is the real reason Bush passed No Cannon Fodder Left Behind because it creates list Selective Service can compare with to check draft registration compliance.

http://www.bendbulletin.com/news//story.cfm?story_no=12895

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Since Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, schools everywhere have been required to give juniors' and seniors' names, addresses and telephone numbers, if requested, to military recruiters. (Though the law refers to secondary school students, the U.S. Department of Education has said it applies specifically to juniors and seniors.)

But parents can opt out. They can ask districts to withhold their children's contact information. And some parents are saying no to the military. They don't want the phone calls, the mailings, the contact. They want to be left alone.

This school year almost 10 percent of the parents of the roughly 4,400 high school students in the Bend-La Pine School District filled out the district's military nondisclosure form. This is the first time the district had a form specifically about military recruitment.

Throughout Central Oregon, most other districts don't have a similar form and most parents don't opt out. As of late February, no one had opted out in the Sisters or Crook County school districts, one parent had in Culver; the parents of three children had in Redmond. The parents of 35 students declined in Jefferson County — the only other district that issues a nondisclosure form geared toward the military recruiting question.


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Draft of kids now 19 begins June 15, 2005, as Bush is spending 28 million dollars to ready the DRAFT this year for his assumed re-election and the conquest of more oil-bearing sands. Read this for more:

http://www.sss.gov/perfplan_fy2004.html

They won't take no for an answer. We told them flat-out, "No, I will not give him the message." We've asked them not to call...and they don't, for a week or two, then it starts again.

They have his name. They know he isn't off at college. They're after him. Fresh meat.

No student deferments, no Canada probably.

BUSH '04 = DRAFT '05

My wife is an APRN, under 45...she is also in the draft target now. My second son is 16, right in the window of vulnerability. I've devoted the last two years of my life to bringing that lying SOB Bush down...this is much of the reason why. I've pleaded with them to listen to me, that this was REAL, but they both say "Why haven't we heard about it on teevee then?" AAARRGGGHHH! So I printed out the pages of draft info posted here the other night and had them all read it. No we're all freaked out together, as a family!

Bush...the uniter!

from the military every week...I was a nurse for 27yrs, and I think they get our info from state board of nursing because I've got an unlisted phone number.

in Canada and they still pester my parents because I'm not 18 yet. I have a student visa and I'm entitled to stay in Canada permanently until 2007. However, I think if there was a draft I would report if called upon. I don't want to be called a coward, and I would be honored to serve my country in spite of those right-wing fools who think liberals don't love the US. They can kiss my ass.

"The only thing that will get us to stop contacting the family is if they call their congressman," says Major Johannes Paraan, head U.S. Army recruiter for Vermont and northeastern New York. "Or maybe if the kid died, we'll take them off our list."

http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2002/11/ma_153_01.html

He/she should be able to fix that.
Hasn't this law been in effect for several years? I may be wrong, but I've been cautioning my daughter about this for the biggest part of the year. (She has 3 young boys and a girl.)

I don't wanna die ;_;

the recruiters. Should do that when you are 15 or 16 BEFORE they get it (see above post on pestering phone calls)!

It will make the opt out notice a part of the introduction to high school. My daughter's high school counselor handed each parent an opt out form during the meeting in which she signed up for ninth grade cases.

This sharing of information is older than the Bush administration ... I remember a mandatory military aptitude test (which included the collection of names, addresses, and phone numbers) when I was in high school during the Vietnam era, and the flood of mail that followed.

Pretty simple.

...etc.

Bringin back some very fond memories, thanks!

:hi::bounce::hi:

...so he reads to us from something called ULLYSES...

my mom was pissed OFF (that is was in there, not that i opted out)

Another DUer just posted that Kerry supports NCLB, and wants to "fully fund" it. Is this true? If so, he's lost any support I might have considered.

I got at least 6 calls from the same damn Sargent! I told him I wasn't interested but he was not buying it... he even wanted to show up at my house for a visit...thankfully I talked my way out of that one!!!

I'm scared for my friends!

January 8, 2002 - On January 8, 2002, President Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act, supposedly to provide accountability education policies. Yet hidden within the 670-page piece of legislation is Section 9528: "each local educational agency receiving assistance under this Act shall provide, on a request made by military recruiters or an institution of higher education, access to secondary school students names, addresses, and telephone listings." All schools must comply with this unfunded mandate or they lose their federal funding. This amounts to legislated blackmail for student names. The act also says: "A secondary school student or the parent of the student may request that the student's name, address, and
telephone listing not be released without prior written parental consent, and the local educational agency or private school shall notify parents of the option to make a request and shall comply with any request."

http://www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea02/index.html

this is just some little bonus they threw on to please an enabler

Cheney figured out a way to have people begging to give up federal funding for education!

Someone said this clause was in previous school legislation and I'm sure that's correct.